constant right moves the DNC will be the less radical right party.
I don’t believe it works that way, if it did, Kamala and Clinton would’ve both won. The DNC is already the less radical right party.
The problem is that voters are more complex than a fixed point on a left/right axis that votes for whoever’s closer to them. For instance, when Democrats pivoted to the right on immigration and tried to pass themselves off as border hawks, what happened was that they threw away a moral argument that they had previously used to criticize the Republicans. People didn’t say, “Oh, now that the Democrats have come around on immigration, I’ll vote for them,” they said, “You were calling them racist over this not long ago, but now you’re adopting the same stance? So the Republicans were right and your criticism was opportunistic and full of shit. Why should I trust your criticism of them on other points?” They actually tried to criticize the Republicans from the right on the issue, citing the fact that the Republicans didn’t go along with Biden’s anti-immigration bill and saying, “We’re the ones who actually want to secure the border, they’re all talk.” Nobody really bought it, and ofc if you were pro-immigration you were expected to still vote Democrat since it’s taken for granted that they’re the “lesser evil.” Meanwhile, this led to a collapse in support among Hispanics, many of whom were willing to support the Democratic party on the basis that Trump’s anti-immigration stance was racist, but when the Democrats shifted right on that issue, many didn’t see a significant difference on that front and voted Republican because they were more aligned on other, cultural issues.
3 stock market crashes with gop presidents in 20 years, measles out breaks, and I suspect stronger hurricanes etc, they cant keep it up.
I don’t have that much faith in the average voter. The democrats will have an advantage in the next presidential election (although they could fuck it up), but after that, like 7 years from now, people won’t remember or care - just like they didn’t care enough about Trump’s first term to not elect him again.
I mean, that’s the way it works with a two party system where they both suck. People see the Republicans sucking and turn to the Democrats because they’re the only other option. Then they see the Democrats sucking and turn to the Republicans because they’re the only other option. You can’t just rely on the other side being bad because if they’re not in charge, people will forget how bad they are. You have to go all the way back to Reagan and H.W. to find a time with two consecutive presidents of the same party - and recently, people haven’t even been going for incumbents, it’s been switching back and forth every four years.
I agree with your points. Not to sound misogyny but I strongly believe it was too early for women. Need a mass die off of elderly jerks before ill believe it. Black men had voting rights before women and we just got a half black president only very recently.
People just need to see past last 4 years or even few months and know what dems are.
Dem betrayal is expected. Don’t bother holding them to higher standard. They are lesser evil. Don’t get annoyed and not vote. Vote third party if anything. Don’t let the greater evil win ever. We do that we will get ratchet effect. Like you described.
I don’t believe it works that way, if it did, Kamala and Clinton would’ve both won. The DNC is already the less radical right party.
The problem is that voters are more complex than a fixed point on a left/right axis that votes for whoever’s closer to them. For instance, when Democrats pivoted to the right on immigration and tried to pass themselves off as border hawks, what happened was that they threw away a moral argument that they had previously used to criticize the Republicans. People didn’t say, “Oh, now that the Democrats have come around on immigration, I’ll vote for them,” they said, “You were calling them racist over this not long ago, but now you’re adopting the same stance? So the Republicans were right and your criticism was opportunistic and full of shit. Why should I trust your criticism of them on other points?” They actually tried to criticize the Republicans from the right on the issue, citing the fact that the Republicans didn’t go along with Biden’s anti-immigration bill and saying, “We’re the ones who actually want to secure the border, they’re all talk.” Nobody really bought it, and ofc if you were pro-immigration you were expected to still vote Democrat since it’s taken for granted that they’re the “lesser evil.” Meanwhile, this led to a collapse in support among Hispanics, many of whom were willing to support the Democratic party on the basis that Trump’s anti-immigration stance was racist, but when the Democrats shifted right on that issue, many didn’t see a significant difference on that front and voted Republican because they were more aligned on other, cultural issues.
I don’t have that much faith in the average voter. The democrats will have an advantage in the next presidential election (although they could fuck it up), but after that, like 7 years from now, people won’t remember or care - just like they didn’t care enough about Trump’s first term to not elect him again.
I mean, that’s the way it works with a two party system where they both suck. People see the Republicans sucking and turn to the Democrats because they’re the only other option. Then they see the Democrats sucking and turn to the Republicans because they’re the only other option. You can’t just rely on the other side being bad because if they’re not in charge, people will forget how bad they are. You have to go all the way back to Reagan and H.W. to find a time with two consecutive presidents of the same party - and recently, people haven’t even been going for incumbents, it’s been switching back and forth every four years.
I agree with your points. Not to sound misogyny but I strongly believe it was too early for women. Need a mass die off of elderly jerks before ill believe it. Black men had voting rights before women and we just got a half black president only very recently.
People just need to see past last 4 years or even few months and know what dems are.
Dem betrayal is expected. Don’t bother holding them to higher standard. They are lesser evil. Don’t get annoyed and not vote. Vote third party if anything. Don’t let the greater evil win ever. We do that we will get ratchet effect. Like you described.